Baseada em “Fire in the Hole”, “Justified”, o novo drama do FX, segue a vida do US Marshal Raylan Givens (interpretado por Timothy Olyphant) ao ser transferido de Miami de volta para a sua terra natal, Harlan, Kentucky. A série está a ser bastante elogiada pela crítica norte-americana que, de acordo com a recolha do Metacritic, lhe dá uma média de 80 valores (numa escala de 0 a 100). Em seguida, as reacções.
Entertainment Weekly | Ken Tucker
Olyphant is surrounded by a terrific supporting cast, including Dirty Sexy Money’s Natalie Zea as Raylan’s ex-wife and Nick Searcy (Deke Slayton in From the Earth to the Moon) as his deceptively cornpone boss. But in the end, it comes down to hard stares and that combination of drawled amusement and sudden violence that make him so cool yet exciting. [Ler mais...]
San Francisco Chronicle | Tim Goodman
The best news of all is that Olyphant backs it up with an incredibly riveting performance. Better yet, Justified as a whole really delivers, from the explosive pilot to a couple of other, less adrenaline-filled but no less superb episodes that add humor and nuanced storytelling to the mix. [Ler mais...]
TV Guide | Matt Roush
This is the best new series, network or cable, of the midseason. An immediately addictive brew of action, suspense and wry humor, the show is grounded in Olyphant’s low-key but high-impact star-making performance, the work of a confident and cunning leading man who’s always good company. [Ler mais...]
Slant Magazine | Aubry D’Arminio
Finishing each episode is like closing up a really great, gritty, little crime novel. [Ler mais...]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Rob Owen
On screen the show has a soaked-in mood, courtesy of pilot director Michael Dinner, and terrific performances that mark Justified as the best new series premiere so far in 2010. [Ler mais...]
Kansas City Star | Aaron Barnhart
Justified is one of those programs where, when you get done with the three review episodes FX sends you, you’re angry because you know FX could’ve sent more episodes if it wanted to. [Ler mais...]
Philadelphia Inquirer | Jonathan Storm
Justified itself stays on target all the time, too, an instant entrant in the best-new-show sweepstakes in a TV season that already has several solid candidates. [Ler mais...]
Salon | Heather Havrilesky
FX’s Justified translates the intense interactions of author Elmore Leonard’s characters into dialogue that’s unpredictable, dynamic and positively riveting. [Ler mais...]
Zap2it (Inside the Box) | Rick Porter
Justified is well-written and well-produced, so it would be good with any decent actor in its lead role. But the show got Timothy Olyphant for the role, and the match could not be any more perfect. [Ler mais...]
People Weekly | Tom Gliatto
Olyphant plays this laconic, loping lawman with a smiling minimalism that makes Givens both iconic and contemporary.
Chicago Sun-Times | Paige Wiser
Olyphant’s devilish looks balance his white-cowboy-hat principles. [Ler mais...]
Chicago Tribune | Maureen Ryan
The shaggily delightful dialogue, the deft pacing, the authentic sense of place, the rock-solid supporting cast and the feeling that you are in the hands of writers, actors and directors who really know what they’re doing–all of these are worthy reasons to watch Justified. [Ler mais...]
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times | Chuck Barney
To be sure, the show is like any other crime drama in that it contains darkness and violence–some of it erupting in unexpected ways. But there are enough new wrinkles here to make anyone who takes a chance on it feel thoroughly justified. [Ler mais...]
Variety | Brian Lowry
Justified has a clear sense of its strengths and shrewdly plays to them. For FX, that savvy combined with Olyphant’s charisma has all the makings of a series destined to nail its target. [Ler mais...]
Time | James Poniewozik
The result is a new-style western that’s both entertaining and as mesmerizing as Givens’ cold-blooded speech to the crook with the scattergun. [Ler mais...]
Hollywood Reporter | Barry Garron
Justified will not stretch the dramatic envelope the way many FX shows have. Still, with its white knight of a hero, fine guest stars and intriguing relationships, one can rely on the show to deliver 13 hours of entertaining and occasionally taut crime drama. [Ler mais...]
New York Daily News | David Hinckley
Justified doesn’t have the bite of “Fire in the Hole,” from which the first episode was adapted, but it gets much of the tone–droll, a little weary, frequently tense, sometimes conflicted–never forgetting that at the core, good is challenging evil. [Ler mais...]
Boston Globe | Matthew Gilbert
Olyphant creates a sense of suspended time whenever Raylan comes into contact with thugs–as if a gun standoff isn’t so far from standing at a bar with a drink in hand. His Raylan is the kind of guy who doesn’t say much, but gives us plenty to talk about. [Ler mais...]
New York Post | Linda Stasi
Less brutal than “Sons of Anarchy” or “The Shield,” it’s nonetheless a true male fantasy show complete with broads, bad guys, blow-ups, bullets and buckets of blood. [Ler mais...]
Los Angeles Times | Robert Lloyd
Fine character actors abound, playing people on the rural edges, but it’s the main character and Olyphant’s performance that lift the sometimes labored plot lines and carry them over the finish line. [Ler mais...]
Newark Star-Ledger | Alan Sepinwall
The pilot, in which Yost liberally borrows Leonard’s trademark lean dialogue from “Fire in the Hole,” has a swagger to it, and also a sly sense of humor….Without Leonard’s writing to directly adapt, the later episodes are a mixed bag. [Ler mais...]
Newsday | Verne Gay
Watch for any length of time and you may–as I did–have the eerie if not unpleasant feeling that you’ve been teleported to a decent network cop show from the 1970s. [Ler mais...]
PopMatters | Cynthia Fuchs
It does tend to love its sublimely self-confident hero, a quick draw and a smartass who nonetheless walks a sort of moral line that baffles his mostly rube-ish opponents. But the show offers other, pleasures that help to make up for what’s predictable. [Ler mais...]
The New York Times | Mike Hale
It feels as if the attention that should have gone to the storytelling all went to the atmosphere and the repartee. [Ler mais...]
Boston Herald | Mark A. Perigard
There are too many instances of people conveniently running into each other. In short, common sense is missing from Justified. [Ler mais...]
Washington Post | Tom Shales
Although Justified qualifies as cryptic, and its mouth is plenty potty, it definitely lacks edge, the most important quality of the three. In fact, it can get downright sleepy between killings. It moseys. It meanders. [Ler mais...]
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